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Conlangery #47: Practicum — Isolating and Analytic Languages

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The Inductive Particle Is a Roll Marker

There are 16 particles for things in Chinese. The inductive particle basically is a case roll marker which tells you that the verb is middle. None of these roles match anything like what we're familiar with in non-in-acclusive or negative absolute languages. So yeah really important if there's this mix of agency and other things that goes on which gives you a lot of roll marking many more than any natural language I know makes more subtleties between the core role or what we would normally consider to core roles. He does have numeral classifiers um but they don't really list them right there. Maybe they're down the uh lexicon. Uh the that's something that you would

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